Month: December 2023

The Kansas City Royals made a pair of free-agent moves Friday, agreeing to a $32 million, two-year contract with pitcher Michael Wacha and a $13 million, two-year deal with outfielder Hunter Renfroe, people familiar with…

Coach Brandon Staley and general manager Tom Telesco were fired by the Los Angeles Chargers on Friday morning after one of the worst losses in franchise history. The Chargers made the playoffs last season but…

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — If you dismiss the NBC Sports Boston report stating Robert Kraft decided last month to part ways with Bill Belichick at the end of the season, I have two questions for you.…

Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy said Thursday that deputies were sent to a residence in Gas early Wednesday evening for what they said amounted to a “swatting” report. The incident occurred after officers received a…

Rising star Michelle Foster with her six-piece band will bring “What Christmas Means to Me” to Iola this weekend. The show begins at 7 p.m. at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. It combines Foster’s love…

TOPEKA — A northeast Kansas school board has taken wide-ranging action against books that mention nudity, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexuality and other topics, a move critics say is meant to target LGBTQ+ books, but…

A little after 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, a man stabbed three children and a woman outside a primary school in downtown Dublin. The woman and one of the children, a 5-year-old girl, were seriously…

The Iola Unity Club met Dec. 11 at the home of Kit McGuffin to learn about the book “Sister Sleuths — Female Detectives In Britain” by Nell Darby. Judy Arbeiter gave the report. She explained…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a defense policy bill Thursday that authorizes the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades, overcoming objections from some conservatives concerned the measure did not do…

We thought Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would be wary of declaring victory over inflation on Wednesday, but he was wary in formal declaration only. Everything else about his press conference after the latest Federal…